We’re working with Wear Rivers Trust to help protect the Hummer Beck and River Gaunless in County Durham.
The team delivering our £4.3m project to upgrade our New Moors Sewage Treatment Works (STW), near Evenwood Gate, County Durham, have provided more than £14,000 of funding to WRT’s Hummer Beck and Lower Gaunless Project, near Bishop Auckland. The project aims to support ecological improvements in the two watercourses, complementing our New Moors upgrades, which will improve the quality of treated water returned to the environment via the Hummer Beck.
This Bluespaces funding will support improvements to 4.3km of accessible environments along and by the watercourses. The Wear Rivers Trust project is also supported by Let’s Clean Up Bishop Auckland, Gaunless Gateway – Big Local, Bishop Auckland Area Action Partnership, Catchment Sensitive Farming (part of Natural England and the Environment Agency.